Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-05-11
IMMIGRATION OF 1887.
Figures Showing How fast hu'oPe""'
Are Coming to America
Especial Correspondence.I

Figures Showing How Fast Europeans
| Are Coming to America.
Especial Correspondence.l
New YORK, May2
ANY hour of the day that l traverse the
streets of lower New York l meet sfr'ng'
| PROFESSIONS men and women in queer ci"'"'
| ing, carrying queer bundles and chatt ring
| in strange languages. They are Italians,
Poles Bohemians, Russians and more rarely
Swedes and Irishmen. 1t Is the first wave OF
that enormous immi grafton which is prom
sed-some would say threatened-for the
year 1887. Already the arrivals amount to
1000 a day. One vessel lately wrecked ON
Long Island had over 200 Italians aboard
If the rate is northumberland the agents tell
US it will be greatly increased-the ihiux Of
Europeans this year will vastly exceed that
of the noted year 1882 when we received 49,
992 immigrants; and there is every reason TO
believe that this year the number will exceed
1,OOO, 200.
But The character of the immigration has
greatly changed. Germany now sends Us
but one-third as many as she did six or seven
years ago, and Irish immigration, which had
sunk to a low level, and revived a little early
in this decade, is now falling off. Ireland an6
Germany have disposed of their surplus pop
ulation for the present, and there is room o.
home for their increase for few years. III
countries showing an immense increase are
Russia, Austria, Italy and Hungary. These
figures indicate their growth: In 'S3 Russia
sent us 1871; last year, 23,9S7. Austras
contribution has grown from 2,707 to Is, 772;
Hungary's from 10, 160 to 1875 On the
other hand, Germany sent us 19S, 4GS in 80:
in '83 but 1861, In 'S4 141 1922 the next
OCT ay,1v
and Ireland. which sent 81, 76s in 'S3, last
year sent but 36,4l6. OF the newcomers the
Russians present rather the best appearance
being tall vigorous and with an air of reso-
luton. They are chiefly from the grain
growing regions of the Black sea and the
Danube, and many OF them are not Russians
in blood, as people of other races have long
been located there.
In 1S47 Castle Garden was set apart for i'm
migrants, and system of registration estah.
lished; and thence to April Of this yen
S,456, 279 have landed there. The Irish inmi
grafton, which was notable as early as 1880
reached its maximum in the years follown,
the famine, and in one year nearly 10000
1rishmen landed at American ports And.
strange to say, the immigration to Australia
and Canada was as large in proportion.
Hence these startling effects on the island: /,
ISL Ireland contained s,196,597 people: in
1851, 6,574,271 in 1871, SAP ST. and in 1881,
only SID, S36.
Before our war it was subject of frequent
remark that only 8 per cent. of the imni
grants settled in the slave states. and it was
only natural to expect that emancipation
would bring change; the foreigner shuns
The competition of the freedman more than
he did that Of the slave, as only per cent.
now go south. Last year 800, 1877 immigrants
their destination, and only G, 1cr
went to the SOUTH Connecticut received 8, O23.
illinois, $500; Minnesota, 12,S17; Wisconsin,,
:, las; Pennsylvania, AZ, 103 (many miners
among them, and New York lO9,554. Not
only do they go north. but to the extreme
northern belt. OF the TIC, 900 Sweles who
have landed at New York in five Years
three-fourths went directly to the far
northwest; and of the 81 ,9O5 who registered
their destination last year, seven elehths
went northwest Of Chicago The census of
1880 showed that while the center of totsr
population was nine miles southwest of Gin
clhnatl, the center OF colored pouulation w:
IS far southwest Of Macon and that of for.
sign just southwest Of Toledo. That of 1890
$ likely to place it even north of that paral-
ell, for the Scandinavians go where their
reighbors and kirsinen have already gone.
: he immigration from England is singularly
wen, varying but little either way from 40
90 year. Last year it was 46.2l5. These
ire mostly middle class farmers and artisans,
The Scandinavians are very much of tn
anne class, and the Russians AMI Austria
1t little poorer: but the Poles, Hungarian |
joheinians and Italians are from the poor.
II the poor in those lands. IL is seriul |
question how far this sudden addition of |
100000 people will affect the labor marke,.
nd, If the influx continues whether we sbn |
Ne shall be able to work them over so f., |
nto good American citzens
J. II. PARKE.